King, whose real-life image exists as the readily recognizable icon for our pursuit of the unbiased and unfiltered truth in radio and print, fought valiantly against his cancer and nearly debilitating arthritis like no other canine and few humans I have ever known. Last Saturday afternoon during early autumn like conditions, King lost his courageous battle with this hideous disease. But as strong-willed as he was in life, so too was he in death, for he seemed to die on his own terms, at the time and place of his choosing, with my wife and me at his side.
